Condo developers launch second challenge

ORLEANS — Developers who want to build condominiums on the site of a local motel near Nauset Beach recently mounted a second challenge to the appeals board's denial of the project.

ORLEANS — Developers who want to build condominiums on the site of a local motel near Nauset Beach recently mounted a second challenge to the appeals board's denial of the project.

GRS Investments already had appealed the board's July 15 denial of their plans to put nine condominium units and garages on the site of the Nauset Beach-Side Motel. The 5.65-acre parcel on Beach Road has 19 motel units.

The second challenge, filed Oct. 14, questions whether two voting board members were properly qualified, Town Planner George Meservey said yesterday.

The developer argues that two board members had been reappointed but not yet sworn in, so the board didn't act properly by a hearing deadline. The town disagrees and is responding to the challenge, Meservey said. He said the board's rules allow a member's term to continue until he is replaced.